Tokyo Olympiad
By: Janus Films ; produced by the Olympic Film Association ; producer, Suketaro Taguchi ; the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XVIII Olympiad ; [directed by Kon Ichikawa ; screenplay, Kon Ichikawa ... [et al.] ; Toho International Co., Ltd.].
Contributors: Mayuzumi, Toshirō, 1929-1997; Janus Films; Olympic Film Association; Organizing Committee for the Games of the XVIII Olympiad; Toho International Co., Ltd
Edition: Widescreen format.
Series: Criterion collection -- 155; Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) -- 155.
Publisher: Criterion Collection
Published: 2002
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: jpn
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Olympic Games (18th : 1964 : Tokyo, Japan)
Other titles: Tokyo Orimpikku; Kon Ichikawa's Tokyo Olympiad 1964
Description: An epic study of athletes struggling to excel against their own bodies and against each other. Kon Ichikawa used 164 cameramen and over 100 cameras to show the humanity of the competitors--the tears of the Japanese women volleyball champions, the bellow of the hammer throwers, the pain of the collapsed marathon runner and the solitude of the loser, finishing his lap, picking up his sweats and leaving the field.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1965.

Includes audio commentary by film scholar Peter Cowie and 1992 interview with director Kon Ichikawa.

Program notes by George Plimpton, excerpts from the Cinematheque Ontario book "Kon Ichikawa," and complete listing of the medalists of the 1964 Olympic Games in booklet.

[Cinematography, Shigeo Hayashida ... [et al.] ; music, Toshiro Mayuzumi].

Not rated by the MPAA.

DVD player required; Dolby digital mono.

Soundtrack in Japanese; subtitles in English.